Almost Famous

Dear family,

Guess what? You’re mentioned in a book by Galal Amin, professor at American University of Cairo:

Emigration had started, albeit rather reticently, in the mid-1960s, but almost all those who emigrated at that time were in the higher echelons of society. They were either educated Egyptians with high qualifications, or capitalists who had been adversely affected by Nasser’s nationalization and sequestration measures and by the crumbling of Egypt’s class structure in which they had occupied a privileged position. They were mostly heading for Canada or the United States.

- Galal Amin, Whatever Happened to the Egyptians.